Registering apparatus



W. H. BYWATER.

REGISTERING APPARATUS- APPLICATION FILED JAN. 15. 1920.

Patented Nov. 22, 1921.

4 SHEETS-SHEET 1 INVENTOR BY :51 W- iTTQRNEY W. H. BYWATER.

REGISTERING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 15. 1920..

1,897,854. Patented Nov. 22, 1921.

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' 1i] winsi ATTORNEY INVENTOR W. H. BYWATER.

REGISTERING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 15. 1920.

Patented Nov. 22, 1921.

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, INVENTOR ATTORNEY W. H. B'YW-ATER.

REGISTERING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 15. 192A).

Patented Nov. 22, 1921.

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I ZBVENTOR JLJ XW ATTORN EY UNITED STA WILLIAI H. BYWATER, OF TBENTON, NEW JERSEY.

REGISTERING arrana'rtis.

specification 91 Letters Patent.-

Patented Nov. 22, 1921.

' Application filed January 15, 1920. Serial, in. 351,524.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. BYWATER, a citizen of the United States, residin at Trenton, in the county of Mercer and tate of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Registering Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is of means for registering the number of persons passing the apparatus in either direction and its ob ect is to effect a duplicate registration of all persons entering a place or a vehicle in order that entrance fees' or fares chargeable may be accurately registered and ascertained and compared with the number of entrance fees or fares for transportation reported and paid by the collector thereof. My invention is particularly adapted to use on railway cars on which uniform fares are charged and paid-by 'the passengers upon entering the cars; and in such connection I herein show and describe it.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of that part of my apparatus which is located above the floor and platform of a railway car of the kind commonly used on street railways; Fig. 2 is an elevation I thereof as observed from the platform of the car; Fig. 3 is a plan view thereof; Fig. 4 is an elevation taken longitudinally of the in terior of a car and showing my apparatus located at the entrance and at the exit of the car; Fig. 5 and Fig. 6 show details of the means for nforcing the rotation of the turnstile of my apparatus in one direction.

In the drawings, 1 is a tubular shaft which incloses and is adapted to rotate about the shaft 2 (see Figs. 1 and 5), which shaft 2 is screwed into a threaded socket/in the base plate 3, which base plate is fixedly connected with the underside of the platform of the car, 4, by the bolts 5 screwed into the plate 6, whlchplate 6 is firmly fixed to the platform by any effective means. Said shaft 2 extends upwardly within the shaft 1 .to a suficient distance above the floor of the platform to afford a firm support for the shaft 1 and maintain it in its vertical position. The

fixed within the upper solid shaft 7 is firmly ft h a So as to rotate wit end of the tubular s I it and rotate the spurs 8 located at the top of the shaft 7 and actuate the lever 9 to actuate the mechanism of the register 10 located on a cross member at the top of the enand 12, 12.

.trance to the car. The shaft 1 carries a turnstile consistin of the arms or frames 11, 11

ails, 13 and 14, supported, respectively, by stanchions, 15, 15 and 16, 16, 16, form a passageway across which one of the arms 11, 11 or 12, 12, of the turnstile extends at all times, while rails 17,17, bar passage between the rail 14 and the adjacent side of the car and afford standing-room for the conductor of the car within the spaceb tween said rails 14 and 17 and the side of the car. The turnstile and its supporting shaft are so located that at all times one of the arms of the turnstile extends across the passageway between the rail 13 and the side 18 of the car entrance. A gate, 19, is mounted upon the stanchion 15 located within the vehicle, so as to swing thereon and to be locked to the adjacent side 18 of the car in any convenient manner and close said passage way when desired.

or the purpose of controlling the rotation I ofthe turnstile, the plate 20 (see Fig. 5) is provided with serrations 21 on its upper face, and is rigidly attached to the shaft 1 by a lock-bolt 22 passed through the flange 23 of the said plate, whereby said plate 20 is made to'rotate with said shaft 1. Another plate, 2-1, having serrations 25 on its lower face to mesh with the serrations 21 on the plate 20, is provided'with openings through its cars 26, through which are passed the bolts 5, 5. Between the plate 6 and said plate 24 is placed a heavy coiled spring, 27, which encircles and is held in place by-the shaft 1, and bears upon the plate 24 sufiiciently to cause a complete meshing of the serrations on the plates 20 and 24 at each In a car having separated entrance and I exit one of the described apparatuses is located at the entrance and another at the exit and when the car is in use, each passenger as he passes from the platform into the body of the car walks through the opening between the rails 13 and 14 and forces the turnstile to make a one-quarter turn or rotation, thereby forcing one of the spurs 8 to contact with, move and'clearthe lever 9 of the register 10, and register one fare. The gate 19 being closed, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and the turnstile being rotatable in but one direction, the exit of alLpassengers'must be efiected through the exit opening of the car, which is usually at its other end. At the exit enin of the car the corresponding gate 19 o the uplicate apparatus is swung back and is locked to t e corresponding stanchion 16, supporting the corresponding I rails 14 and 17, and the passengers making their exit from the car pass out between the corresponding rail 13 and side 18 of the car, such passage being permitted by the direction of the rotation of the corresponding turnstile. The number of outgoing passen gers is thus similarly registered upon a corresponding register operated by' the turn stile at the exit. If, at the end of the trip the car is not reversed for the return trip, as by traversing a loop, the positions of the gates 19 are not reversed, but if, upon the return trip, the former entrance becomes the exit, and vice versa, the gates 19are reversed in their positions to prevent exit through the entrance of the car. By the use of said apparatus in duplicate, as described, each entrance and each exit of a passen er is registered by difierent registers and t e numbers registered on the two registers will be equal and the number of fares paid on entering the car should tally with said two registrationsl.

Having thus described my invention, claim 1 1. Register operating apparatus comprising a turnstile positioned to block and open two passageways, and supplementary means for blocking said passa eways alternately at will for converting said apparatus into either an entrance or exlt registering apparatus.

2. Register operating apparatus comprising a turnstile positioned to block or open two passageways, means; for enforcing rotation of said turnstile in one direction, and supplementary means for blocking said pass'ageways alternately at will for converting said apparatus into either an entrance or exit registering apparatus.

3. A registering apparatuscomprising a turnstile adapted to operate a registering device andpositioned to block and open two passageways and a swinging gate mounted intermediate said passage ways and adapted to block or open either passage way for converting said apparatus into either an entrance or exit re isterimr a aratus.

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